Nestlé UK recalls three Aero hot chocolate products

Nestlé UK & Ireland is recalling three Aero hot chocolate products because of a quality issue.

The products are Aero ‘Hot Choc’ jars (288g) and sachets (24g) and Aero Go Instant ‘Hot Choc’ cups (28g). No other Nestlé or Aero products are affected, said the maker.

There is a possibility that food-grade silica beads could be found in a very small number of packs.

“These are not harmful if consumed, but Nestlé sets very high standards for the quality of its products and any packs affected by this issue clearly fall short of those standards. This relates only to Aero hot chocolate and does not affect any other Nestlé or Aero products,” the maker said on Monday (28).

The news comes a week after Nestle announced that a limited run of Quality Street products including tubs, pouches and cartons will include the famous hazelnut noisette (green) triangle wrapped in an unfamiliar gold colour while Quality Street fans might find the octagonal orange crunch decked in a dark bronze foil.

The rare packs were produced at Nestlé’s Halifax factory, the home of Quality Street, when it became clear that stocks of green and orange foil would not cover a planned production run that took place last week.

Quality Street’s Senior Brand Manager, Jemma Handley, said: “I promise this isn’t a publicity stunt. We’ve not added full size chocolate bars to the tin or removed the coconut flavour from a handful of tubs.

“We simply didn’t have enough of the right coloured foil to cover the production run of the two sweets in question and, rather than leave them out of the selection altogether, we decided to use different colours for a very limited period.”